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Uke Hunt Podcast #3

Powered by Podbean.com Download Uke Hunt Podcast #3 Subscribe with iTunes Bossa has made her much anticipated return just in time for a Christmas podcast. And she’s put together an excellent selection of Christmas and non-Christmas tracks. As always, there’s plenty of swearing so those with sensitive ears should tread carefully. If you want to [...]

Christmas Ukulele Tabs and Chords

A quick round up of the past two years’ worth of Christmas tabs and chords: 12 Days of Christmas (Chords) All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey (Chords and Tab) Christmas for Cowboys – John Denver/Ballard C Boyd (Chords) Cold Outside – Julia Nunes & Wade Johnson (Chords) Fairytale of New York [...]

Ukulele Chord iPhone/iPod Apps Review

There have been quite a few ukulele apps released since my last app review. So time for a new round-up comparing the various ukulele chord apps that are out there (plus a quick review of one non-chord app). Ukuchords Price: Free What is it? Chord diagrams. Major, minor, 7 m7, 7M, dim, 6 m6, aug, [...]

Why You Should Give A Crap About Copyright Terms

Not my usual uke-centric post this. But it’s an issue that affects anyone who has learned a song from the net, made a ukulele video for YouTube, written up a chord chart for a ukulele group or just attempted to learn an instrument. There’s a lot of debate over copyright when it comes to making [...]

Halloween Tabs and Chords

Some tunes you may wish to bone up on before the big night. Addams Family Theme Tune Chopin – Funeral March Dance Macabre Ghostbusters (Duet) The Gothic Archies – Freakshow London Bridge Is Falling Down (From Halloween) The Misfits – Dig Up Her Bones The Misfits – Halloween Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (from The [...]

Songs with Chords You Know

Just because you’re a newbie doesn’t mean you can’t rock the raging patootie out of a few songs. Here’s a list of songs with chords for all. C, F and G If you prefer, you can use G7 in the place of G or vice versa for any of these songs. NeverShoutNever! – Your Biggest [...]

Uke Hunt Podcast #1

Uke Hunt Podcast #1 (MP3) (61.8 MB) Warning: Explicit I’ve just finished listening to the first episode of the Uke Hunt podcast and I bloody loved it. I can say that without being big-headed because it was all done by Bossarocker. And she did a bang up job. Subscribe The Uke Hunt podcast is up [...]

How to Play Classical Ukulele

I promised delivery on July 1st and here it is. But it almost killed me and I’m not sure how I’m going to pull off writing How to Shred the Fuck… by November. I’m on a time-consuming, top secret project that can only be referred to as Operation Exploding Carrats. Sorry about the name, my [...]

Fake Strums Tutorial

The fake strum is a simple technique that I use a lot in my arrangements. So it’s about time I gave it a post of its own. It’s used in fingerpicking pieces to play full chords. It sounds like a strum but it’s just done by picking individual strings in sequence. Here it is played [...]

Uke Hunt Podcast

In a further attempt to spread my tentacles over the internet (I said tentacles) and rake in the payola, next month is going to see the launch of the Uke Hunt podcast. Obviously no one wants to hear my surly grunting, so at the helm will be Bossarocker. It’d be great to have loads of [...]

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